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It portrays a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as much effort to crafting a thoughtful personal answer to the letter of a young fan as to those from his old friends and associates; an extremely active man never too busy to make time for an old family friend in need of simple companionship; a man who never wrote without careful thought, and never thought from the heard alone, but always from the head and heart together.
The letters in this inspiring book track Bruce Lees career and development from his decision, made while he was still in secondary school, to move to the US to further his education, through the many setbacks, redirected efforts, and triumphs of life that shaped his martial art and humanity, all the way to the last letter he ever composed, just hours before his sudden death.
After absorbing the letters in this volume, the reader will inevitably find that the private Bruce Lee was every bit as great as the public Bruce Lee, and deeper and broader by far. Letters of the Dragon: Correspondence, 1958-1973 is conclusive evidence that a life lived well is never too short a life.
This Bruce Lee Book is part of the Bruce Lee Library which also features:
- Bruce Lee: Striking Thoughts
- Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon
- Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu
- Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
- Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body
- Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do
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A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks are extended to the following individuals, who gave freely of their time and provided copies of their missives from Bruce Lee for inclusion in this book: Linda Lee Cadwell, Taky Kimura, Jhoon Rhee, Larry Hartsell, Leo Fong, Ed Hart, George Lee, and Adrian Marshall. Thanks are also extended to those who have allowed their letters from Bruce Lee to be published in various magazines and otherwise shared their correspondence with the general public.
A C HRONOLOGY OF B RUCE L EES L IFE
November 27, 1940 | Bruce Jun Fan Lee born in the hour of the dragon (between 6:00 AM and 8:00 AM) in the year of the dragon. |
February 1941 | Appears in his first film. He is three months old. |
1946 | In Hong Kong, Bruce Lee begins to film the first of what will total twenty Cantonese-language films before the age of eighteen. |
1952 | Enters Hong Kongs La Salle College, a Catholic boys school. |
1953 | Begins to study gung fu under Yip Man, the venerated grandmaster of the Wing Chun system. |
1958 | Wins Hong Kongs Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship. |
March 29, 1958 | Enters St. Francis Xavier High School. |
April 29, 1959 | Departs Hong Kong for America. |
May 17, 1959 | Arrives in San Francisco. |
September 3, 1959 | Arrives in Seattle, Washington. Enters Edison Technical School, beginning in fall quarter. |
December 2, 1960 | Graduates from Edison Technical School. |
May 27, 1961 | Enters the University of Washington, beginning in spring quarter. |
March 26, 1963 | Returns to Hong Kong to visit his family for the first time in four years. |
August 1963 | Returns to Seattle. Leaves the University of Washington after spring quarter 1964. |
July 19, 1964 | Establishes a gung fu institute in Oakland, California. |
August 2, 1964 | Performs at the International Karate Tournament in Long Beach, California. |
August 3, 1964 | Begins gung fu instruction in Oakland. |
August 17, 1964 | Marries Linda Emery in Seattle. |
February 1, 1965 | Bruce and Lindas son, Brandon Bruce Lee, is born in Oakland on Chinese New Years Eve, the year of the dragon. |
February 8, 1965 | Bruce Lees father, Lee Hoi Chuen, passes away in Hong Kong. |
March 1966 | The Lee family moves to Los Angeles, California. |
June 6, 1966 | Shooting of The Green Hornet TV series begins. |
February 5, 1967 | Officially opens the Los Angeles chapter of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. |
May 6, 1967 | Performs at National Karate Championships in Washington, D.C. |
June 24, 1967 | Appears at All-American Open Karate Championship, Madison Square Garden, New York City. |
July 1967 | Names his way of martial art jeet kune do. |
July 14, 1967 | Hired to appear in episode of Ironside TV series, shot in Los Angeles. |
July 30, 1967 | Performs at the Long Beach International Karate Tournament. |
June 23, 1968 | Attends National Karate Championships in Washington, D.C. |
July 5, 1968 | Hired as the technical director for the movie The Wrecking Crew. |
August 1, 1968 | Hired to play a bad guy in MGM movie Little Sister (later renamed Marlowe). |
October 1, 1968 | Moves to Bel Air, Los Angeles. |
November 12, 1968 | Films episode of Blondie, a Universal TV series. |
April 19, 1969 | Birth of Bruce and Lindas daughter, Shannon Emery Lee, in Santa Monica, California. |
1970 | Returns to Hong Kong with Brandon to visit his family. |
1970-71 | Works with actor James Coburn and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant on screenplay about the philosophy of martial art. Movie is to be entitled The Silent Flute. |
1971 | Begins to collaborate with Warner Brothers on developing TV series, The Warrior (later renamed Kung Fu). |
June 27, 1971 | Films premiere episode of Longstreet TV series for Paramount. |
July 1971 | Goes to Thailand to film The Big Boss (Fists of Fury in North America) for Golden Harvest Studios. Movie breaks all previous box office records in Hong Kong. |
December 7, 1971 | In Hong Kong, receives official word he will not star in The Warrior; role has been given to American Caucasian actor David Carradine. |
1972 | In Hong Kong, films second film for Golden Harvest, Fist of Fury (The Chinese Connection in North America), which breaks records set by his previous film, The Big Boss. Forms his own Hong Kong production company, Concord, and makes directorial debut in The Way of the Dragon (Return of the Dragon in North America); again, shatters all previous Hong Kong box office records. |
October-November 1972 | In Hong Kong, begins preliminary filming of fight sequences for next film, The Game of Death. |
February 1973 | Interrupts filming of The Game of Death to make feature film, Enter the Dragon, in Hong Kong for Warner Brothers. |
July 20, 1973 | Bruce Lee passes away in Hong Kong, his death the result of a cerebral edema caused by hypersensitivity to a prescription medication. |
July 31, 1973 | Bruce Lee is laid to rest in Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle. His pallbearers are friends and students Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Dan Inosanto, Peter Chin, Taky Kimura, and his younger brother, Robert Lee. |
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All photos appearing in this book are courtesy of the archive of Linda Lee Cadwell, the Estate of Bruce Lee, and Warner Brothers Films.
Published in 1998 by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.
www.tuttlepublishing.com
Copyright 1998 Linda Lee Cadwell
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from Tuttle Publishing.
Lee, Bruce, 1940-1973
Letters of the dragon : correspondence, 1958-1973 / by Bruce Lee : edited by John Little.
p. cm. (the Bruce Lee library; v.5)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8048-3111-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-4629-1785-3 (ebook)
1.Lee, Bruce, 1940-1973Correspondence. 2. Martial artistsUnited StatesCorrespondence. 1. Little, John R., 1960
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